Motivation on the Run

After talking about Peter Drucker on this weeks podcast, I have been following different links to stories and comments about him. Harry Joiner has one of the best tributes I have read by posting 20 of his favorite quotes from Mr. Drucker. The first four are listed here, but to read the other 16 you [...]

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A super weekend, a sad happening and more on motivation this week on Motivation on the Run. That’s right… a great weekend with the Redhead, running errands and spending time together. The passing of Peter Drucker and how a man spent over 60 years making a difference. He will be missed. Have you ever had [...]

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You’ve landed that great new job as a salesman for a great company. They have a good reputation for being a leader in their industry. You know that if you work hard, you will be successful. You are motivated to success by all the factors that make up this new world. Then after two and [...]

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Steve Pavilina’s blog is usually very interesting, but this post on earning $10,000 for one hours work is a good take on long range thinking, as opposed to the usual short range that pervades the United States. He talks about the dollar value generated from the work done in one hour, as opposed to the [...]

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Do you have a goal to write a book? I have to admit, I have thought about it for many years, and lately it is becoming serious. Well, I found this through one of the blogs I read called Communication Nation and wanted to pass it along. It steps you through writing a book in [...]

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Yes, I had to finish the marketing test for the Microsoft Small Business Specialist certification and today was the day. Things can sure pile up on us if we aren’t careful. The phrase, “the hurrier I go, the behinder I get” runs through my mind more and more lately and it plays louder and louder [...]

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I find this type of information very interesting even if it is from May of 2004. The information is both surprising and unsettling in ways. I think the real interesting part is the lack of interest in main stream new sources. I think this has probably grown over the last year. If you follow the [...]

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A great week so far, and on the podcast I talk about the importance of appearance, the importance of speaking well, and a few tips for new managers. If you listen closely you will catch several grammatical errors, even as I was speaking about vocabulary and grammar. Let me know if you catch them.

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What I find surprising with this survey is the statistic on the number of people, 65%, who aren’t sure what the boss’s job is or how his work is measured. It seems to me that if the employees aspire to the position that their boss now holds, they better get busy and find out. Part [...]

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This has happened to us all at one time or another. That sinking, sluggard feeling that rises to consume us. Motivation assassination is a good phrase for this problem. It drives the point that outside forces attack and destroy the motivation we generally have and can be devastating, hence, assassinated. A word picture that makes [...]

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